Cultural Treasures of the World. From the Relics of Ancient Empires to Modern-Day Icons, Hardback - DK

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKIllustration(s): 883 photographsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 243 x 287 x 33C...

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From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture...

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A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fe...

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This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating History of the Persian Empire Students of ancient history are well aware of the Persians. A still-present cultur...

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From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation for...

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Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Anne RooneyIllustration(s): Hardback with jacketNumber of pages: 128Collection: The Story of Everythin...

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Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressNumber of pages: 460Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 252 x 31Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Jose Pedro Paiva...

From the cooling fountains of the Alhambra to the imposing palace grounds of Chinese emperors and the clean lines of the formal French parterre, th...

aeo Highly original and innovative account of the history of humour through the ages from Antiquity to the present day. aeo Includes accounts of jo...

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do....

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 21Cover type: Hardback...

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From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis to our own time, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influen...

For almost 1, 200 years, the Persians ruled a territory that stretched from the Black Sea into Central Asia, from India to Egypt and into the fring...

The return of cultural treasures to their homelands inspires fierce debate, as the case of the Elgin Marbles illustrates. The third edition of The ...

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Reducere. DescriptionDespite its Harry Potter-like title, The Book of the Cave of Treasures is actually a rich seam of Jewish and Christian apocryphal lore, ...

World's Worst Military Disasters examines some of the worst battle defeats in military history from ancient times through to the present day, inclu...

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A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Ag...

Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured shock cavalry on the ancient battlefield, predating the knights of Western Europe by over 1000 years.

How did an ancient Indian spiritual discipline turn into a $20+ billion-a-year mainstay of the global wellness industry? What happened along yoga's...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Alistair ShearerIllustration(s): 27 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 456Publication date: 2022...

The Dragon in the West is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history of the image and idea of the dragon. A creature popular in...

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