HISTORY -- Civilization

Do museums still need objects?

by Conn, Steven

fromArts and Intellectual Life in Modern America

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Conn ranges across a wide variety of museum types--from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums--asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non…

King and court in ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE

by Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd

fromDebates and documents in ancient history

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The first Persian Empire (559-331 BCE) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seated at the heart of its vast dominions, in the south of modern-day Iran, was the person of the Great King. Immortalized in Greek literature as despotic tyrants, a new vision of Persian …

Atlantis and the silver city

by Daughtrey, Peter

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History & rsquo;s most intriguing mystery may have been solved & mdash;recently unearthed evidence points towards the real location of the ancient, lost city of Atlantis. More than 2,000 years ago Plato laid down around a hundred cryptic clues about the location of the lost worl…

The Annals of West Coker

by Nathan, Matthew

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After a life of public service Sir Matthew Nathan retired to the Manor of West Coker near Yeovil in Somerset. He developed a keen interest in his new home; he began first to read about it, then to deepen and widen his research, and then to turn his knowledge into this connected …

Frommer's British Columbia

by Ernst, Chloe

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Frommer's Complete GuidesAmerica's #1 bestselling travel seriesMore full-color guides than ever beforeFoldout maps in annual guidesOutspoken opinions, exact prices, and insider tips.

Countdown: our last, best hope for a future on Earth?

by Weisman, Alan

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In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, ind…

Countdown: our last, best hope for a future on Earth?

by Weisman, Alan

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In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, ind…

Countdown: our last, best hope for a future on Earth?

by Weisman, Alan

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In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, ind…

Countdown: our last, best hope for a future on earth?

by Weisman, Alan

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"A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant…

In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, ind…

Countdown: our last, best hope for a future on Earth?

by Weisman, Alan

0 Type: Book

In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species -- including our own -- out of existence. The answer: reducing gradually and non-violently the number of humans on the planet whose activities, ind…

Countdown: our last, best hope for a future on earth?

by Weisman, Alan

0 Type: Book

"A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant…

A history of the world in twelve maps

by Brotton, Jerry

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Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably partial and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power, authority and creativity of parti…

History and GIS: epistemologies, considerations and reflections

by Travis, Charles, Lunen, Alexander von

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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) - either as 'standard' GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) - have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography.'Mainstream' history, however, seems to be rather un…

The cave and the light: Plato versus Aristotle, and the struggle for the …

by Herman, Arthur

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A history of the influential rivalry between Plato and Aristotle traces the Western world's ongoing battle of ideas to their competing philosophies, demonstrating how their contrasting views on everything became the twin fountainheads of Western culture. It is the seqel to the a…

Jewish contributions to civilization: an estimate

by Jacobs, Joseph

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Concerned with the continuing, and growing, anti-Semitism of his day, Jacobs laid out a statement of the Jewish contribution to civilization. Beginning with the convention of Jewish self-recognition as the people of the book, he sketches the relationship between the church and t…

World heritage in Iran: perspectives on Pasargadae

fromHeritage, culture, and identity

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"This edited volume presents for the first time a broad, multi-disciplinary examinsation of Pasargadae by experts from both outside and within Iran. It specifically focuses on those disciplines that are absent from existing studies, such as ethnography, touris, and museum studie…