Search results for “[Subject: ancient]”

• Author(s): Joyce Tyldesley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 was perhaps the world's most important archaeological find. The only near-intact royal...

• Author(s): Eckart Frahm • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralA "sweeping, delightfully readable" (Wall Street Journal) new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future...

• Author(s): Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history's most iconic figures...

• Author(s): Eckart Frahm • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralA new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyr...

• Author(s): Adrian Goldsworthy • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - AncientFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome's most devastating defeatAugust 2, 216 BC ...

• Author(s): Virginia Postrel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Str...

• Author(s): Brian Fagan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralIn 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Ninos ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered thro...

• Author(s): Jared Farmer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralThe epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world "Rich...fascinating."--The Wall Street Journal Humans hav...

• Author(s): Ralph D. Sawyer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: HistoryIn The Tao of Spycraft, for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable traditio...

• Author(s): Jacob Soll • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Free Enterprise & CapitalismFrom a MacArthur "Genius," an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first...

• Author(s): Jared Farmer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralThe epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as histor...

• Author(s): Andrew Whitby • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: World - GeneralThis fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the...

• Author(s): David Gollaher • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryFrom the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through its use by nineteenth...

• Author(s): Thomas J. Figueira • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: LeadershipAncient Greece, the culture that brought us democracy, philosophy, comedy and tragedy, and the Olympic Games, and ancient Rome, best know...