A Universal History of the Destruction of Books
Title | A Universal History of the Destruction of Books PDF eBook |
Author | Fernando Báez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Myths and Legends from Korea
Title | Myths and Legends from Korea PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Grayson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136602895 |
This book contains 175 tales drawn equally from the ancient and modern periods of Korea, plus 16 further tales provided for comparative purposes. Nothing else on this scale or depth is available in any western language. Three broad classes of material are included: foundation myths of ancient states and clans, ancient folktales and legends, modern folktales. Each narrative contains information on its source and provenance, and on its folklore type, similarities to folklore types from China, Japan and elsewhere.
Ancient and Modern Britons
Title | Ancient and Modern Britons PDF eBook |
Author | David MacRitchie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Blacks |
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Lost Discoveries
Title | Lost Discoveries PDF eBook |
Author | Dick Teresi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 143912860X |
*A New York Times Notable Book* Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in this eye-opening and landmark work. This innovative history proves once and for all that the roots of modern science were established centuries, and in some instances millennia, before the births of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. In this enlightening, entertaining, and important book, Teresi describes many discoveries from all over the non-Western world—Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt, India, China, Africa, Arab nations, the Americas, and the Pacific islands—that equaled and often surpassed Greek and European learning in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first extensive and authoritative multicultural history of science written for a popular audience, Lost Discoveries fills a critical void in our scientific, cultural, and intellectual history and is destined to become a classic in its field.
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Title | Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Hall |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2014-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393244121 |
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
A History of Modern Yemen
Title | A History of Modern Yemen PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Dresch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2000-12-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521794824 |
An accessible and fast moving account of twentieth-century Yemeni history.
Ancient Inventions
Title | Ancient Inventions PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. James |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 0345401026 |
A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad