A History of Babylon, 2200 BC-AD 75
By: Paul-Alain Beaulieu
4.21
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the a…
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
3. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
4. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
By: Stephanie Dalley
3.99
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 … read more
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"Look for the copper tablet-box, Undo its bronze lock, Open the door to its secret, Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it, The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of suffer…"-Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
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5. Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City
By: Gwendolyn Leick
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
Over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, urban living began... Mesopotamia, situated roughly where Iraq… read more
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6. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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7. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
By: Samuel Noah Kramer
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as … read more
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8. The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
By: Raymond Jonas
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invadi… read more
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9. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
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10. The Sumerian World
By: None
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
'The Sumerian World' explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its rela… read more
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11. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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12. The Complete Stories and Poems
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.72
Format: 294 pages,
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and… read more
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13. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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14. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
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16. Termination Shock
By: Neal Stephenson
3.83
Format: 708 pages, Hardcover
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17. The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
By: Ian Davidson
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment… read more
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18. The Canaanites: Their History and Culture from Texts and Artifacts (Cascade Companions)
By: Mary Ellen Buck
3.93
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The term Canaanite will be familiar to anyone who has even the most casual familiarity with the Bib… read more
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19. A History of Babylon, 2200 BC-AD 75
By: Paul-Alain Beaulieu
4.21
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the a… read more
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