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The bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist's incredible experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned from their culture, customs, and ...
The historical account of the end of the Roman Empire
Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of ...
A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian ...
In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism ...
Still used as a guide to classical Greece even today this remains one of the most influential travel books ever written.
Written in the second ...
In 1537 Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to three popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador, administrator, military captain--and persona non grata with the ...
'The enemy were overpowered and took to flight. The Romans pursued as far as their strength enabled them to run.'Between 58 and 50 BC ...
Edited with a facing-page English translation from the Latin text by: Chibnall, Marjorie;
Books VI - X of Livy's monumental History of Rome
Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse ...
Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought
Burke's seminal work was written during the early ...
Geraldus de Barri, called Cambrensis from Cambris (Wales), the country of his birth, was a member of one of the leading Norman families involved in ...
Leonard Schapiro, one of the world's most distinguished historians of the Russian past, has written the definitive biography of the enigmatic Ivan Turgenev. Based ...
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundations. With a mixture of ...
"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about ...
