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How the West Was Lost : Coping with Life in a Strange, New Civilization
Patrick Michael Murphy
Paperback - $35.95
His premise is that civilizations have "life spans," and the Western civilization that produced America and Europe has been replaced, in our lifetime, and before our very eyes. To people whose minds were made by the West, the civilization we now find ...
Ancient Mesopotamia
Don Nardo
Hardcover - $153.95
Mesopotamia, the "land between the rivers," was the site of the world's first true cities, empires, large-scale engineering projects, and written literature. The history, culture, and contributions of the pivotal civilizations that inhabited the area ...
The Nature and Destiny of Man : A Christian Interpretation
Reinhold Niebuhr
Paperback - $92.95
Arguably Niebuhl's most important work, this book offers a sustained articulation of his theological ethics and is considered a landmark in 20th-century thought. This book issues a challenge to Western civilization to understand its roots in the fait ...
Nationalism, Historiography and the (Re)Construction of the Past
Claire Norton
Paperback - $45.95
The essays in this collection explore both how the employment of nation-state dominated discourses have caused a re-imagination of the past, and how the past has been reconstructed to accord with nationalist agendas.
A Short History of Byzantium
John Julius Norwich
Paperback - $29.95
"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details. . . . All of this he recounts in a style that consistently entertains."
--"The New York Times Book Review
In this magisterial adaptation of his epic three-volume history o ...
The Middle Sea : A History of the Mediterranean
John Julius Norwich
Paperback - $32.95
A one-volume narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919. Written in the racy, readable prose for which the author is famous, this is colourful, character-driven history at its most enjoyable.
This magnificent undertaking ta ...