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• Author(s): Lionel D. Barnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe book presents, within a moderate compass, a general survey of the history and culture of ancient India. It begins with an outline of the hist...

• Author(s): Nayanjot Lahiri • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIconic sites and ‘monumental’ subjects in Indian history are the core of this fascinating collection of essays. Nayanjot Lahiri ra...

• Author(s): Douglas Cairns • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the G...

• Author(s): John Hannett • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralJohn Andrews Annett was the pseudonym of John Hannett, a printer and a pioneer in the study of modern and historical...

• Author(s): Dorothy Mills • Publisher: Angelico Press • Publisher Imprint: Angelico Press • BISAC: History - AncientThe Book of the Ancient Romans is an introduction to the history and civilization of Rome from the traditional date of the foundi...

• Author(s): R. J. Snell | Steven F. McGuire | Steven F. McGuire • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralModern thought is sometimes presented as introducing a "turn to the subject...

• Author(s): Irad Malkin • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalGreek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they ca...

• Author(s): Himanshu Prabha Ray • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyHimanshu Prabha Ray looks at the maritime orientation of communities of the Indian subcontinent prior to ...

• Author(s): D'Arcy W. Thompson • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousAncient Leaves: Or Translations And Paraphrases From Poets Of Greece And Rome is a book that was...

• Author(s): John G. Landels • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceMusic in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Had...

• Author(s): Ian Morris | Colin Renfrew | Clive Gamble • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyThis study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structur...

• Author(s): Auguste Mariette • Publisher: Lushena Books • Publisher Imprint: Lushena Books • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expe...

• Author(s): Aleksandra Hallmann • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptWinner of the Erazm Majewski Award in archeological publications from the Division I: Humanities and Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of S...

• Author(s): F C H Wendel • Publisher: Lushena Books • Publisher Imprint: Lushena Books • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the kno...

• Author(s): Douglas Boin • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeOstia Antica - Rome's ancient harbor. Its houses and apartments, taverns and baths, warehouses, shops, and te...

• Author(s): Ernest a. Wallis Budge • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptDwellers on the Nile, Or Chapters on the Life, Literature, History and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians is a comprehensi...

• Author(s): Kostas Vlassopoulos • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceInformed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slav...

• Author(s): J. G. Manning • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"We have waited too long for this fine book."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History"[Thi...

• Author(s): Mukerjee | R. Mukerjee • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis book was first published in 1955. This work deals with the human remains (of the first mill...

• Author(s): William Burnet Wright • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it....

• Author(s): James 1778-1864 Pillans • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge b...

• Author(s): M. Rostovtzeff | J. D. Duff • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeFirst published in 1927 this monumental book has long been out of print. Brilliantly written, it sta...

• Author(s): Kanika Kishore Saxena • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAbout the Book Mathura is most famous for its association with Vasudeva-Krsna, an important deity of the Hindu p...

• Author(s): Sian Lewis | Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers...

• Author(s): Paolo Matthiae • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ArchaeologyThe discovery of 17,000 tablets at the mid-third millennium BC site of Ebla in Syria has revolutionized the study of the ancient Near...

• Author(s): Alan K. Bowman | Greg Woolf • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider con...

• Author(s): Orby Shipley • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralLyra Mystica: Hymns And Verses On Sacred Subjects, Ancient And Modern is a collection of religious poems and hymns compiled by O...

• Author(s): Nancy Honovich • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: History • BISAC: History - AncientMummies, pyramids, pharaohs, King Tut! Kids everywhere are fascinated by the wonders of ancient Egypt, and this colorful refere...

• Author(s): George Rawlinson • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: GeneralThis Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.

• Author(s): Richard H. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearin...

• Author(s): Jacob A. Latham • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThe pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent po...

• Author(s): Enthralling History • Publisher: Enthralling History • Publisher Imprint: Enthralling History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralWith unimaginable wealth, palace intrigues, birthday parties featuring fine wine and endless desserts, lavish arc...

• Author(s): Susan a. Stephens | John J. Winkler • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThe recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, Phoinikika, Seson...

• Author(s): Jonathan M. Hall • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThe purpose of this book is to show that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic ...

• Author(s): Gwendolyn Leick • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFrom Palestine to Iran and from Alexander the Great to Zechariah, Who's Who in the Ancient Near East presents a unique and comprehensive ...

• Author(s): John Gardner Wilkinson • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Africa - GeneralWith its stunning illustrations and detailed descriptions of Egypt's ancient culture and civilization, this boo...